House Republicans Expand Effort to Reopen Portions of Government

Want NIH funded, National Guard paid

House Republicans plan to keep trying their new piecemeal approach to solving the shutdown, setting up yet another round of votes Wednesday on bills that would fund veterans affairs and national parks — and adding new bills to fund the National Institutes of Health and to pay the National Guard and the military reserves.

But the White House budget office said President Obama "strongly opposes" those bills and would veto them if they were to reach his desk.